Digital Cammo Is Just Game

The United States Military released today that the use of Digital Camouflage will “no longer be used in standard military issue for uniforms and fatigues.” This came shortly after classified information was released from an anonymous source to the New York Times. According to the article Digital Camo (MARPAT or Marine Pattern Camouflage) has been used for some time now in the United States Armed forces as the standard camouflage pattern for all fatigues and combat uniforms. Its initial use was designed for the Marine Corps and then moved into the other Armed forces by 2004. MARPAT was introduced sometime after 2001 and was patterned after the earlier CADPAT (Canadian Disruptive Pattern) supposedly developed in the late 90’s by the Canadian Military. The anonymous informant revealed that he was closely tied with the creation of the MARPAT pattern. He said that it was created merely by using pixilated screen shots of the popular Nintendo game Duck Hunt. He also purported that this was done so that the budget allotted for the project could be diverged into other secret government projects that he would not divulge details about. Just something to think about…